3rd Grade
ELA
ELA
Fact or opinion: Asparagus is the most delicious vegetable ever.
Opinion
These are: " "
What are quotation marks?
The suffix -ist means what?
A person who does, makes or practices.
What is the purpose of a topic sentence in a paragraph?
It explains what your paragraph will be about so your readers get an idea of what they're about to read.
Where is the conjunction in this sentence?
Billy like to play in the park, but he is not always able to go.
If a text uses the words "he", "she", or "they" to tell a story.
- is it third-person or first-person?
What is third-person point of view?
Give an example of a verb
What is run, skip, walk, jump, etc?
explain comparing and contrasting
to identify the similarities and differences between two or more subjects.
What does it mean to "summarize" a text?
To shorten the story but still highlight the main points of the story.
Can you explain the difference between a fiction and a nonfiction text?
Fiction: Imagination/not real
Nonfiction: Facts/based on real events
what is the meaning of the word reveal?
Show
What is the meaning of an author's claim/purpose?
What is the author saying/ the lesson they want us to learn
If the prefix -un goes in the word unavailable-what does that mean?
What is, not able to do something
What is the purpose of a conclusion in an essay?
The purpose of a conclusion in a story is to provide a final summary of the main points and discuss the core message.
What is a main idea? How do you find the main idea?
It is what the passage/story/text is about/ We can use key details/and or illustrations to find the main idea/
How can you describe the person in the paragraph?
Sadie was kicking a soccer ball in the house and broke her mom's expensive vase. The vase was shattered into a million pieces. She went to her mom and told her what she had done even though she knew she'd be punished.
Honest
How do you combine this sentence suing a coordinating conjunction?
I saw the stars. I saw the moon.
I saw the stars and the moon.
The text structure that puts events in order is known as...
(What do we call it when we put something in order)
What is a sequence or chronological order?
Explain the difference between fact and opinion.
Fact: Information stated from proven evidence.
Opinion: How someone personally feels.
What is the difference between first-person and third-person point of view?
First-person: narrator (I, me, and my)
Third-person: narrator is not a character in a story. (he, she, they, and them)
When I go back to the story to find the proof of my answer to a question, I am using...
How do you combine these sentences using a subordinating conjunction?
I need to go home. It is about to rain.
I need to go home because it is about to rain.
It was raining cats and dogs. The idiom "raining cats and dogs" means
What is it's raining really hard?
"The stars are diamonds in the sky". Is this figurative language or literal?
figurative
What is personification? Give an example
Giving human qualities to a nonhuman object.
The wind danced through the trees.